Lily Janiak’s theater pick, Nov. 5

Susan Jackson’s “Death Be Not Loud!” takes place in the part of the country where people don’t just die; they “up and die.” The American South, in her rendering, has an unceremonious relationship with death: In a Southern hospital, says Red (Diana Brown), “they let you bring in a dog to visit your relatives.” Loss colors life for both Red and Marion (Jackson); the two begin the play in separate, interwoven monologues, then meet at the end, at a funeral. It’s an end for the dead, but for the women, it’s a beginning. Wesley Cayabyab directs the coproduction by Southern Railroad Theatre Company, 3 Girls Theatre Company and Entropy Productions.